From pork to Prince to Project Runway.

January 05, 2011

Favorites of 2010.

I didn't do this last year, and I kind of regret it; it's funny how easy it is to forget what was on your mind in a given year, if you don't write it down (2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003).

Music

For the first time that I can remember, I relaxed my arbitrary rule of one song per artist. Because it's my list, and that rule was stupid! Another stupid rule? Not bothering to order the songs. That rule? Abolished!

Here's a pretty picture:

And here's an eleven-song-strong list, where songs link to something appropriate, if possible:

Reading

Last year, I started using goodreads to track all of the books I've read (I even imported the books I'd listed on Vox). And according to goodreads, I finished 25 books in 2010; I'll count that as 26, since I finished another on January 3, 2011.

Food & Drink

And finally, cooking and, well, drinking. And that's easy: 2010 was the year of pizza! I made so many pizzas, all with the goal of getting better at making dough.

Everything I've ever read about kneading dough implies--or even explicitly states--that making dough is really easy. And it is! The problem is, the first time you make it, and maybe the second and third times, you've no idea what the dough should feel like, and so it's tough to know when it's ready. But once you've done it a couple of times, and have made a pizza (or bread) each time from that dough to see how it tastes--then, yes, it's easy.